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Specialized Agency Agreements

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In 1946 the Economic and Social Council, stressing its desire to “discharge effectively its responsibility to coordinate the activities of the specialized agencies”, adopted resolution 13(III) which requested the Secretary-General to “establish a standing committee of administrative officers of the specialized agencies brought into relationship with the United Nations, for the purpose of taking all appropriate steps, under the leadership of the Secretary-General, to ensure the fullest and most effective implementation of the agreements entered into between the United Nations and the specialized agencies.” The UN Secretary-General established the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), then known as Coordination Committee. The title of ACC was given in 1948 to distinguish it from ECOSOC’s own Coordination Committee.